Sunday, October 12, 2008

Music of Florence Price in 'Songs From American Women', Conway, Arkansas Oct. 14

[Florence Beatrice Smith Price (1887-1953)]

Arkansas Democrat Gazette
By Eric E. Harrison
Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2008
“Art songs by women 
Faculty members from three Arkansas colleges and universities will give a concert of art songs by American female composers at 7: 30 p.m. Tuesday in the Recital Hall of the Snow Fine Arts Center at the University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway. The concert, 'Songs From American Women,' will include works by Lori Laitman, whose opera The Scarlet Letter will receive its world premiere in November at UCA, and by Arkansas natives Florence Price and Andrea Ramsey, Amy Beach, Carrie Jacobs Bonds and Karen P. Thomas.

Singers will include Martha Antolik, mezzo-soprano, and Suzanne Banister, soprano, UCA faculty members, and UCA students B. J. Webster, soprano; Ron McDaniel, baritone; Amy Lefler, mezzo-soprano, and Drew Ladd, tenor; Holly Ruth Gale, mezzosoprano, Arkansas Tech University; and Joanne McDade, soprano, Hendrix College. The concert will also feature pianists Stefanie Dickinson and Lynnette Stanley of UCA and Tim Smith of Arkansas Tech and violinist Linda Hsu of UCA. Antolik organized the concert. The Zeta Chi chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, a professional music sorority dedicated to the promotion of American music, in collaboration with Songs Unlimited Inc., an organization dedicated to the promotion of the art of song worldwide, are the presenters. Admission is free. Call (501 ) 450-5772."  [Full Post] [The African American composer Florence B. Price (1887-1953) is profiled at AfriClassical.com]
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